DEAR STEEMIIIIIIIIIWORLD,

HELLOOOOOOOOOO!

Meeegaawd! How I have missed you!

.. and you.. you.. you.. you.. you..... ALL OF YOU!
I feel like I was under a sleeping spell and it took me years to have waken up. Probably because I was patiently waiting for my Prince Charming to break the curse. Was there ever a prince who would even charm me back in Steemit? Who am I kidding??? This isn't a fairystale story where we can just whoop up some magic and dust it all over to make things easier for everyone of us.

Yeah yeah I know, my bad I was not able to say my piece for taking the long long long break. It has been quite long that I have taken the leave of absence. I can't really express the exact words of what my life have been through. Life is like that sometimes, things happens for a reason. Always has been.

I guess being here in the community has gotten a bigger part of me that I cannot and will not shut it out. Even if I keep on being MIA, it wouldn't change the things I love doing here. I love how I have had a new world where it had brought me something good. In fact GREEEEEEAAAAAT! Because I was able to find geniune friends whom I can always call my family. We may not be realted by blood or by any affinity. I know you will also agree with me that we share one heart and soul in making this community a better place to live in.

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Speaking of which, I miss my dear WW Family. How are you all doing guys??? How have you been holding up?? I know you are all busy with something, I kinda noticed a few. Naaaaaahh.... as much as I want to but I wont tag any of you!!!! That would just make me cry even more as I am already in tears writing this down. I am becoming a little emotional at this point, please let me be. I have truly and sincerely miss all of you so much. I could run down a roll call in all of you and each one will bring a smile as I walk down the memory lane on the last time we had been together.

I am slowly stalking back at you guys... don't freak out y'all! I just wanna know how have you all been doing. I can't pop up myself in the discord channel just yet. I am not really back at 100% myself.. hahahahaha... is that even valid?!!
Even if I wanted to drop by and kiss all of you (oh come now, I know you wanna kiss and hug me too!!!) dont be sooooo shy about it as I am not! hahahahaha how so assuming and presumptuous of me you all feel the same way... or maybe three or five of you ---- that I am sure! hahahahahahaha.. if only you could see my face! I am again struggling to hide my giggles while I am presently working decently here in my table.. ssssshhhhhhhh.. that is totally a lie! I am not really really working, I am taking a break from it so that I could squeeze in here a few minutes to check you all out.

Imagine the year had already turned another year older and I was like gone in more or less three (3) months, I think. A lot might have happen here and maybe I had missed a few awesome events too. Well, for one thing I missed the grandest launching of the dreemie's monkees!!!! I was pretty excited to join the beta phase.. darn it! I apologize I wasn't around enough to join in the fun and jump in with the fiesta bananas. Aaaaaaannnnnd I am so sure that there are a other festivities happening around in our not small but big community. I hope one day I could run through one of it and be part.. i wish wish wish...

Hmmmmmmmm.. the life we had once shared.

I missed writing too. Writing is one of my biggest passion and probably my first love next to reading. As I have said it before, I aint a great writer that of a novel worthy kind or those that are great with words that their imagination runs vividly. That is not me. I am just an ordinary one who just turn to writing like I was just writing my daily journal. It is as if I am just talking to myself, facing the mirror (sometimes) and thinking out loud.
ooohhh mirror mirror on the wall, has my comrades missed me as much as i missed them....

I understand how it is important to let something out on what we keep holding in inside. As Shrek would always say, "It is better out than inside". For me, I dont want to keep all my thoughts to myself. I feel I will explode for there are so many things getting in my head. I feel the need to write things somewhere somehow. I feel I need to get it out of my system and maybe share it to somebody. And in SteemitWorld, that had become my haven in giving my writing journal to life! I only not been able to keep talking to myself, somebody somewhere even talked back at me.. hahahahaha... and a few of them had became family. This is the main reason that I will never ever leave this community. Yes, I may be gone for a while but I will keep on coming back. This is something that I will not allow to end unless the system kicks me out. Ahhh... that would be sooooo sad. NO! I DON'T WANT THAT EITHER.

My love for this community will always linger on even when I am not around. I hope that despite my being absent, you still feel my presence and won't forget about me. I cannot promise to stay long, I only have today to spare with you. How I wished there would be more of TODAYs so I could be here more often. But, the only thing that I am quite sure is... I WILL BE BACK. I WILL STILL BE HERE. SOON. JUST NOT TODAY.

Today was truly magical. I do not know what got through that it made me turn to writing. It was such a wonderful feeling to have gotten back to it once again. It has been quite a while. Thus, it had given me quite a relief, a happy release . A satisfaction that only us writers can understand. right?

Well, now now.. there is no good byes.. there is only ------ till we meet again!

Gotta go! signing off..

xoxo,

-maquemali